2nd Semester Examination 2020 – 21

Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches (11th IB) 1 hr 30 min

HIGHER LEVEL M. M. 80

PAPER 1

Instructions to candidates

• Write your session number in the boxes above.

• Do not open this examination paper until instructed to do so.

• You are not permitted access to any calculator for this paper.

• Section A: answer all questions. Answers must be written within the answer boxes provided.

• Section B: answer all questions in the answer booklet provided. Fill in you session number on

the front of the answer booklet, and attach it to this examination paper and your cover sheet

using the tag provided.

• Unless otherwise stated in the question, all numerical answers should be given exactly or

correct to three significant figures.

• A clean copy of the mathematics: analysis and approaches formula booklet is required for

this paper.

• The maximum mark for this examination paper is [80 marks]

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1. [Maximum mark: 3]
Prove that log 2 3 is irrational.

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2. [Maximum mark: 4]

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3. [Maximum mark: 5]

Solve for x :

x−4 2
<
1 − 2x 3

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4. [Maximum mark: 5]

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9. [Maximum mark: 18]

[4]

[8]

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11. [Maximum mark: 13]

(a)

[8]

(b)

[5]

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